IT Security Guru

MARCH 29, 2023

As important as it is, cybersecurity awareness training might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world, but when it involves plots to rival your favourite network crime dramas, expertly crafted cinematography, and characters to root for? However, it pays off; the show has real, dedicated fans.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With remote work the new normal for most and ransomware attacks at peak fever pitch, there’s no time like now to learn about cybersecurity, or for those in the know, for a refresher on some of the common pitfalls to avoid in order to keep your data safe. Save 40% today with code: SC21FALL.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybersecurity Pros Warn Against Insider Threats. A recently released Insider Threat Report collected data from over 500 cybersecurity professionals to examine industrial efforts against insider threats. Cybersecurity Threats Plague Energy Groups. Employees of the St.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2023

Money Message is a new ransomware which targets both Windows and Linux systems. In April, criminals used Money Message to hit at least 10 victims, mostly in the US, and from various industries, including MSI. Also watch out for phishing emails claiming that you need new firmware for whatever reason. Prevent intrusions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 20, 2023

News broke in early February that the ACN, Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency, issued a warning regarding a VMware vulnerability discovered two years ago. Many organizations hadn’t yet patched the issue and became the victims of a new ransomware called ZCryptor. But how were they able to work so fast?

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown “zero-day” flaw, or an “insider” attack in which the accused took advantage of access surreptitiously obtained from her former employer. But new information indicates the methods she deployed have been well understood for years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2023

OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT, has dominated the news cycle since its unveiling in November 2022. The generative AI application has revolutionized not only the world of artificial intelligence but is impacting almost every industry. Malware campaigns using ChatGPT ChatGPT is everywhere.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

In my role, I regularly engage with CISOs in all kinds of sectors, representatives at industry bodies, and experts at analyst houses. Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

And although only the most high-profile attacks tend to make news, cybercriminals target businesses of every size and in every industry. At the same time, supply chain attacks are becoming more common by the day. The team at HYAS looks at these problems differently than most of our peers.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft’s deep dive into Scattered Spider last month shed new light on the relatively new, albeit dangerous, ransomware gang who made headlines in September for attacking MGM Resorts and Caesar Entertainment. How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. Prevent intrusions. Detect intrusions. Stop malicious encryption.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 21, 2023

Two years later, a sketchy affiliate model called Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) made its debut, thereby lowering the entry bar for wannabe threat actors. Essentially, it meant that the criminals would keep extorting victims in a similar way as before, except that they would no longer deposit and execute ransomware inside corporate networks.

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SecureList

JULY 7, 2021

New findings. Our previous story regarding WildPressure was dedicated to their campaign against industrial-related targets in the Middle East. With low confidence this time, we believe their targets to be in the oil and gas industry. Configuration embedded inside the script. List of.php pages hosted on VPS. ws32) (we32).

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DoublePulsar

MARCH 2, 2020

I’m joining Microsoft’s Threat Protection division to bring what’s needed to threat intelligence: scale-y porgs. Windows XP (Gossi Edition) I’m incredibly grateful, and a little scared, to say that soon I will be joining Microsoft Threat Protection as a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, working with the team in Redmond.

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Errata Security

JULY 19, 2020

CEOs who read about this in the news ask how they can protect themselves from similar threats. Most of our advice is actually internal political battles. For the second part, they just want to be average in their industry, or at best, slightly above average. You want to be average, or at most, slightly above average.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

An increase in ransomware attacks is not news to us anymore. That number spiked significantly in 2020, where a Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 from Bitdefender shows a 715% year over year increase in detected and blocked ransomware attacks in 2020. Circumstances Where IT Disaster Recovery Plan was Executed.

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Aside from the service offerings themselves, SaaS services from Microsoft and Google run inside of their world-class datacenters that provide high-availability mechanisms and redundancy that are not attainable by businesses running resources inside of private enterprise datacenters.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2023

In a surprising turn of events for the ransomware landscape, Cl0p has emerged as the most used ransomware in March 2023, dethroning the usual frontrunner, LockBit. In other LockBit news, a CISA advisory on LockBit 3.0 How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry. ransomware was released on March 16, 2023.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you’ve read cybersecurity news lately, you’ve probably heard that it’s back. For some reason, when it comes to our industrial and energy sectors, many are blissfully unaware of the threats faced on a daily basis. But not all energy and industrial companies are as lucky.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. We can see that the number of threat actors that rely on client-side attacks (JavaScript) is diminishing by the day. According to the Korean Financial Security Institute, Andariel is a sub-group of the Lazarus threat actor.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It seems like a pretty big threat, but also one that is really hard to counter. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain. BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example. TS: Exactly.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is the normal cadence the industry expects and although difficult to keep pace, the cybersecurity world is able to tread these waters. Prelude: Cybersecurity is a notoriously unpredictable and chaotic industry where attackers set the tempo for innovation, investment, and anticipate a response by defenders.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

” In December, eSecurity Planet detailed FireEye’s initial findings , implications for the industry, and how to mitigate similar attacks. The extent of the most recent attacks is still being unraveled. When the SolarWinds news first broke, a malicious backdoor dubbed Sunburst was the primary culprit for the vast compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Industry experts see that AI will require governance action, cause learning pains, and will be used to both improve and attack cybersecurity.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Stories about computer security tend to go viral when they bridge the vast divide between geeks and luddites, and this week’s news about a hacker who tried to poison a Florida town’s water supply was understandably front-page material. NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

She’s an amazing person who has done an amazing number of things in a short amount of time -- CMU professor, Forrester analyst, CSO at a successful startup -- and she’s not done changing the industry. And the good news? They're looking macro trends of the industry and who can do strategic analysis and strategy planning.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

Gaining news exposure is generally a good thing for most businesses, especially if it is something positive presented. In recent years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievable data breaches making news headlines that have resulted in anything but a positive outcome for the organizations involved.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 30, 2024

The issues stem from internal lapses or deficiencies and may not always include external threats. Cloud storage risks involve potential external threats and vulnerabilities that jeopardize the security of stored data. Risks can lead to issues, but at the same time, you can prevent the risks by addressing these issues.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

As technology evolves and our dependence on digital systems increases, the cybersecurity threat landscape also rapidly changes, posing fresh challenges for organizations striving to protect their assets and data. The common maxim today is that when it comes to breaches, it’s no longer a case of ‘if’ but ‘when’ or ‘how often?’.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

As most cloud security failures are due to customer error, CSPM’s ability to find and fix those errors has made it a critical cloud security tool. CSPM solutions also offer best practices and recommendations for organizations to follow in order to adhere to industry-leading security procedures.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Or even basic low level threat analysis. Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. Often they lack the visibility of a SOC. The same model happens.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

We hope this article will help you to stay one step ahead of threats like this one. As with most cyberextortionists lately, the Cuba gang encrypts victims’ files and demands a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. This is the most popular model among ransomware gangs today. DDoS attacks in that case are not necessary.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

The threat landscape for businesses today is filled with many different security threats and attack vectors used by hackers and other malicious individuals. What are the types of cyber security threats? Data has been referred to as the new gold of this century as it represents the most valuable asset that a business possesses.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

And many organizations that do have on-staff pentesting expertise want the objective view of an outsider to better discover vulnerabilities and weaknesses that hackers might otherwise find first, and so even the most advanced organizations hire outside cybersecurity testers too.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Inside Edition : Andy Greenberg, senior writer at Wired allowed two hackers to remotely control a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee that they say hadn't been altered in any way while driving on a highway in St. .” ” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

Ultimately, the most likely outcome is that elements from each scenario identified eventually come to fruition in ways no analytic technique can foretell. Moscow could leverage its cyber capabilities to generate increasingly sophisticated fake news, which it would proliferate primarily via social media. Methodology.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Log monitoring and threat intelligence are at the core of many cybersecurity tools, as they offer rich sources of data for the tools to use and learn from. Anomaly Detection: Unusual patterns or behaviors can be detected, helping to identify insider threats and advanced persistent threats.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

However, the same need for security exists for remote workers, cloud computing networks, and operational technology (OT) such as smart industrial pumps, temperature sensors, and industrial control systems (ICS). Instead, data now processes within branch offices, retail locations, factories, and a host of IoT devices.

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